Audacious Automatons

Welcome back, Spooky Lovelies! Tonight Our Ms. Merrick has a dark & devious tale of the very first handmade beings! From The Golem to The Mechanical Turk, she’ll tell you all about how they work… or seem to. Even Our Friend, Mr. Poe has a part in this peculiar tale! And be sure to see The Midnight Library’s Own Glass Case Gypsy, Maria, whilst you visit, and have your...misfortune told.

Prague Golem

Da Vinci's Mechanical Lion

An engraving of the Turk from Karl Gottlieb von Windisch's 1784 book Inanimate Reason

An advertisement for Mälzel's appearance with the Turk in London [46]

A cross-section of the Turk from Racknitz, showing how he thought the operator sat inside as he played his opponent. Racknitz was wrong both about the position of the operator and the dimensions of the automaton.[9]

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